Microbial Variants from Iron Ore Slimes: Mineral Specificity and pH Tolerance.
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SUBMITTER: Abhilash
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627956 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
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Microbial Variants from Iron Ore Slimes: Mineral Specificity and pH Tolerance.
Abhilash Ghosh A A Pandey B D BD Sarkar S S
Indian journal of microbiology 20150805 4
This paper describes the isolation of the native bacterial strains from the iron ore mines slime pond and its extremophilic characteristics. The two microbial isolates designated as CNIOS-1 and CNIOS-2 were grown in selective silicate broth at pH 7.0 and the organisms were tested for their selective adhesion on silicate and alumina minerals. The silicate bacteria with their exopolymers are very potent to grow over aluminosilicates. It was established that CNIOS-1 grew preferentially in the prese ...[more]
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